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Thursday, April 26, 2018

President LBJ complained that CIA was running "a goddamn Murder Inc. in the Caribbean," which was true. The beneficiaries were US corporations rather than organized crime-NY Times, 11/8/2013 review of book about John Foster Dulles and brother Allen who over decades made US into global champs of "regime change," government sanctioned murder, whatever corporate interests wanted

John
Foster Dulles and his brother, Allen, were scions of the American
establishment. Their grandfather John Watson Foster served as secretary
of state, as had their uncle Robert Lansing. Both brothers were lawyers,
partners in the immensely powerful firm of Sullivan and Cromwell,
whose New York offices were for decades an important link between big
business and American policy making.

Eventually,
the United States government tired of Allen Dulles’s schemes.President
Johnson privately complained that the C.I.A. had been running “a
goddamn Murder Inc. in the Caribbean,” an entirely accurate assessment—
except the beneficiaries were American corporations rather than
organized crime. Nowadays, the Dulles brothers have faded from America’s
collective memory. The bust of John Foster, once on view at the airport
west of Washington that bears his name, has been relocated to a private
conference room. Outside the world of intelligence aficionados, Allen
Dulles is little known. Yet both these men shaped our modern world and
America’s sense of its “exceptionalism.”They should be remembered,
Kinzer argues, precisely because of their failures: “They are us. We are
them.”"